First Breakfast Duty - "Daily Routine" Post

This week I really need to be at work around 8:30, which means leaving around 7:45. I am not a morning person. Since my job has been so busy lately, I've foisted the breakfast cooking duties onto my husband. Today, I finally stepped up. This is great practice for when we have a child and start having regular family breakfasts!

6:30 AM: Wake up. Take a quick shower and get dressed.

6:45 AM: Start the rice (put in the cooker last night). Start miso soup boiling. Start taking stuff out of the fridge.

6:50 AM: Float a few dried anchovies and bonito flakes in the boiling water. Prep veggies. Put mackerel in broiler. Dad rolls into kitchen and takes over because I'm not grating the daikon the right way. Asks me for a cutting board, gets impatient because I take more than 1.5 seconds to clear off the board for him, reaches for it, overextends and falls over. Yikes! Dad is righted and daikon eventually grated.

7:00 AM: Strain out anchovies and give to dog. Add miso paste and seaweed to the soup. Add veggies to soup.

7:05 AM: Turn over mackerel. Put tofu in soup. Turn soup down to simmer.

7:10-7:15 AM: Serve soup, rice, mackerel with sides of kimchi, grated daikon, natto and more seaweed (husband and dad help at this point).

7:15 AM - 7:35 AM: Family breakfast achieved!

This kind of breakfast is intense to prepare, but it really starts off the day with a nutrition explosion.